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Don't you miss having the same keyboard shortcuts across programs?

Or the tiny things, like, does backspace at the beginning of text delete one space, back to the nearest indentation (e.g. 4 spaces) or back to the beginning of the line?

Moving between sublime on MacOS and VSCode on windows is death by a thousand needles to me. I can only imagine what moving between 3-4 editors must be like.

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A sizable portion of the Jetbrains IDE functionality can be accessed by the keyboard. Moreover, the keybindings can be configured very similar to Emacs quite easily (I don't want to live without C-x C-2 etc. for splits for instance). There's a couple of helpful plugins, too. And for hardcore, straightforward editing I've bound Cmd-e to launch emacsclient right at cursor position. This goes quite a long way, IMHO.

Personally, I miss Notepad++'s tab and shift-tab behavior with multiple selected lines on nearly everything, but except for that, I don't usually miss a tool behavior on another tool.

It helps that I set tooling based on language, so if I decide to use Pycharm for Python¹, I will expect Pycharm's behavior on every Python file. But I won't expect it on C, or Haskell, or SQL.

1 - I do change my opinnion over "a specialized IDE is best than emacs when it exists" a lot, currently I'm liking the interaction-free emacs interface more.

That's less of a problem when you use Vim keybindings everywhere.

A lot of IDEs have options to enable emacs-like key bindings. But the mapping is imperfect, and sometimes it gets frustrating. But I tend to work in one environment at a time, so after the initial frustration, I'm fine.

I also find myself using emacs short cuts when using Excel, which doesn't work, at all, of course.

All my IDEs share common settings for copy paste, searching and basic text editing, for everything else there is mouse and graphical tooling.

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